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it just occurred to me that i haven't seen an adult use a tablet in years outside of a few people who use them for sheet music. i'm wondering if this is just my experience or if people in general don't find them as useful anymore

smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 4d

there are some real bangers on the subject in here. i swear i will eventually get through all of his stuff and start posting about other writers.

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David Bentley Hart on Perfect Freedom and the Good

In honor of Tom Belt and his indefatigable effort to defend creaturely willing of the transcendental Good, consummated in the salvation of all, I thought I would pull together selective quotations …

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 4d

without external constraints (usually when we talk about laws, etc.). freedom is removing barriers, especially internal, that allow one to become what one is meant to be. (this is necessarily vague as "what one is meant to be" can have many reasonable definitions.)

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 4d

one of the words that gets tossed around the most without reflection and with the assumption that we all mean the same thing is "freedom." i try to, at least mentally, maintain a distinction between liberty and freedom. liberty being the ability to freely put into action the notions of the will

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 4d

i'm nearing the end of Reaper's Gale (Malazan book 7). This morning it made me cry and this evening it made me rage.

fuggin great book

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

thanks! <3 it means a lot to know that at least someone reads these screeds

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

what are the chances they announce their findings over the scanner? i don't think my computer can handle going to a local news website XD

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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 6d

North Shore. Warfield Street. Caller is doing work on behalf of People's Gas and they were doing some digging work. They dug up some suspicious looking bones and wanted to let the authorities check it out.

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

into modern frameworks.

i should probably feel a little bad about that, but we have enough issues with the converts we already have and i'm doing my part to keep extreme rightwing dopes out. if they're really serious, they'll come back

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

splinter group of slavs that either tolerates them or doesn't know who they are

i'm fairly certain that i've put several people off of looking into Orthodoxy (who found out about us via Jay Dyer) by expressing some of this. ancient traditions, and this should be unsurprising, do not fit neatly

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

there are several white nationalist groups/figures that have tried to insinuate themselves but they get bounced around because we explicitly condemn phyletism and that plays against their racism. plus they're forced to have a bunch of non-white people as co-religionists unless they can find some

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

there are exceptions and enclaves both among "cradles" and converts. most of these are headed by what get derisively called evangelical orthodox priests (almost always converts themselves). their understandings of the faith are either shallow or warped to fit right wing ideology.

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

this happens in Orthodoxy, too. people come looking for "traditional" beliefs only to learn that both Tradition proper and the traditions aren't rooted in mid-1900s USA but are much deeper and vital than culture wars. their preconceptions shatter against the reality then they change or move on.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

so glad i work from home now

Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 5d

If you are wondering how drivers are doing today, there are about 5 concurrent accidents. Someone just struck a pedestrian at Ellsworth Avenue and Devonshire Avenue (which is a recent hot spot). While typing this, someone just booped a car into a PRT bus.

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smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

sometimes i see the things Catholics to then am glad that the EOC isn't better known in the US. some of the water blessings on Theophany really get interesting beyond the service itself.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

smalltimebenny.bsky.social @smalltimebenny.bsky.social · 5d

i've been tooling around this auction site looking for a few things, mostly for projects or orgs. i noticed that there are a lot of MP3 players out there again. if i could snag one for a couple bucks then i'd just have to find my old HD with my music on it.

or find my box of CDs and rip them

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 6d

oh shit oh fuck something is wrong everyone it's been almost a full day since September ended and Green Day hasn't woken up yet shit oh god I'm not sure what to do, and don't you dare suggest calling 911 ok if we do that we're all going to jail

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